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View Poll Results: Is Maine the worst f'ing state in the Union? | |||
Yes. | 5 | 15.63% | |
If I could trade Maine for a Canadian province, I would, even if it's that French one. | 11 | 34.38% | |
I don't know anything about Maine. I only go to interesting places that don't have speed traps. | 23 | 71.88% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll |
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09-18-2018, 09:17 AM | #61 |
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Easily a Top 5 Rainman thread.
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09-18-2018, 09:17 AM | #62 | ||
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Location: Maine
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Roads are usually good, even non tolls; repave frequently. CA takes your money and the roads are crap.
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09-18-2018, 09:19 AM | #63 | |
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS
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Must be a western thing, because I saw something similar in the Black Hills on the South Dakota side. |
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09-18-2018, 09:20 AM | #64 | |
In BB I trust
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Location: Boston, Mass.
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I'm sure they looks nothing like Wyoming, but I've done two utterly desolate drives in my time. 1. The drive from the airport on the big island of Hawaii to the resort we were staying. See picture below. My memory (this is from the 80s) is that the lava formations were smoother and taller than what you see below, but still, it was like landing on freaking Mars. 2. Drive from Hoover Dam to northern rim of the Grand Canyon. Desolate desert for miles and miles. There ain't nothing remotely like that in the northeast, that's for sure. Trees were in scarce supply. I'd probably have hated that drive if I was more used to seeing that (not that there was much to see), but it was so weird I was pretty fascinated by the nothingness of it all, so to speak. |
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09-18-2018, 09:23 AM | #65 |
In BB I trust
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Boston, Mass.
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I was going to keep quiet on this, but I was involved in an unpleasant incident arising from racism in Maine. Unpleasant comments from ignorant fools in a state which is literally 99% white.
Of course, that's just a couple of people, but still -- that left a bad taste in my mouth for the state also. |
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09-18-2018, 09:34 AM | #66 |
Seeking the Truth daily
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Location: In the Country in MO
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The Maine Lobster Festival is a great time. If you can't have a great time in Maine, there is always 6 Flags or Silver Dollar City. Or an Indian Casino.
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09-18-2018, 12:06 PM | #67 |
You think you can get by this?
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Springfield, MO
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Does this mean Missouri is the "hot chick"?
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09-18-2018, 12:19 PM | #68 |
Sauntering Vaguely Downwards
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Columbia, Mo
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I respectfully disagree with Mr. Rainman.
I stayed in Kennebunkport and made a couple of trips down into Portland and some surrounding areas. I found it to be a fantastic, very pretty state. I can only kind of disagree with Bugeater. Wyoming was, in fact, one of the most desolate spaces I have ever seen in my life. Until I continued further north into Montana and then drove through the high desert up there. We were on a motorcycle trip and got pretty far west into Montana before circling back towards the black hills (essentially made a giant squarish sort of thing starting in Colorado Springs). We were at open throttle across almost literally the entire state. That would've been terrifying but/for the fact that the road had no features to scare you; no turns, no hills - just a road that vanished due to the eventual curvature of the earth. The landscape has nothing that might hide wildlife which could jump in front of you. There are no cars that might turn in front of you or police presence that might be annoyed by your rate of travel. You could just go 120 mph for hours because there is literally nothing there. Wyoming was desolate but I've never seen anything like Montana. This overpopulation nonsense is bullshit - there's plenty of space for people. They just don't want to live where it's cold... |
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09-18-2018, 12:22 PM | #69 | |
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And yeah, it was the strangest thing I've ever seen. No markers, no real warnings to speak of. The road just...stops. And then after awhile it starts again. |
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09-18-2018, 12:30 PM | #70 |
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Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Johnson County, Kansa
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I tried to. He might be the only cool thing to ever come out of there. Maine is so awful that it made him crazy and a great writer. Maine sucking something awful, and a lot of Colombian Bam Bam helped his career to what it is
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09-18-2018, 12:31 PM | #71 | |
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Location: Newport, Or
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09-18-2018, 02:50 PM | #72 |
Changes pants while driving
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Washington D.C.
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Can Maine play safety?
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09-18-2018, 02:55 PM | #73 | |
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09-18-2018, 03:55 PM | #74 | |
The Maintenance Guy
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Yeah, not too many people there, and that's why we're thinking about moving there. Cold? It gets cold here in the midwest. I'll take it. |
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09-18-2018, 04:02 PM | #75 |
The Maintenance Guy
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Location: Renovated Bugeater Estate
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I had forgotten about the Great Salt Flats, we traveled across that when I was a kid. I seem to recall it going on for hours, but it was only 50 miles. It has to be longest stretch of interstate anywhere without any type of curve or hill. Just nothing.
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